Robert M. Sauer, V’52, a former faculty member at Penn Vet, died on October 23, 2016. He was 88.

Dr. Sauer joined Penn at the School of Veterinary Medicine and became an associate professor of pathology. He also headed Penn Vet’s pathology laboratory. From 1968-1974 he worked at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo and taught at George Washington University School of Medicine. He was chief of veterinary sciences at the Gillette Medical Evaluation Laboratories and a senior pathologist and vice president at Pathco.

He is survived by his wife, Dawn G. Goodman, V’69; two sons and two daughters; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren